Michael was honoured to receive the ACTIP fellowship in Stockholm for his doctoral work and enjoyed the pleasant networking atmosphere on the ACTIP meeting with many stakeholder companies and innovative thinkers from biopharma.

It was an honor to accept the invitation to the High Tech Venture Days in the Transparent Factory of VW in Dresden – a networking event for 40 selected European start-ups, investors and media partners. Michael enjoyed the discussions with many inspiring entrepreneurs and investors, and was glad to show that high tech solutions can also have a revolutionary effect in pharma manufacturing.

On the BioProduction conference in Dublin Fabian and Michael presented our contribution to make decision taking for the bioprocessing teams simpler, quicker and more robust based on our digital and automated tools. We had the privilege to also chair Smart Factories track and see a vivid interest of industry to step into this direction. Despite different priorities in the selection and application areas of such smart tools, it was evident that now is the moment to start advancing in this...

SPICA is one of the most prestigious conferences on industrial chromatography. Alessandro was invited as speaker and chairman to share our vision on the impact smart model-based digital solutions can have also in this sector of bioprocessing.

The Industry Day at ETH each year attracts hundreds of visitors from academia, industry and investment organizations. We were honored to be amongst the presenters at this event sharing our contribution to industry 4.0 for the pharmaceutical industry.

Manufacturing 4.0 is becoming a key direction in the biopharmaceutical industry. At the Bioprocessing Summit in Boston two full days were dedicated to discuss the challenges and trends in this field. Michael was privileged to participate as a speaker, chairman and panelist, and was proud to present our vision on smart, digitalized and automated bioprocessing together with our collaboration partner Dr. Nicolas Cruz from TU Berlin.

It was a privilege to follow one of the intellectual fathers of continuous biomanufacturing, Dr. Ganapathy Subramanian, to a pleasant forum in Oxford, where leading scientists, equipment and solution vendors and end-users discussed the important trend in advancing the technical need and operational strategy for implementing continuous manufacturing in pharma industries. Michael highlighted in his presentation that particularly in continuous processes the role of robust quantitative tools...

Achema is the world forum for chemical engineering and the process industry offering once in three years to more than 150,000 participants an innovation platform, technology summit and international networking. We were delighted to be invited to contribute to the seminar on the topic "Scale up of continuous production processes of antibodies, application fields of data analysis, their use in process modeling and generation of algorithms for the Machine learning " together with the host Lewa as...

For the first time, we organized two events at ETH Zurich centered on data analytics and digitalization for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. The two-day course on Advanced Process Data Analytics was fully booked out. The participants enjoyed a versatile program combining lectures, hands-on case studies and socializing in Zurich. The Symposium on Big Data and Digitalization in Biotech and Pharma was attended by more than 80 professionals. 10 high-level speakers, several solution...